Hell’s Kitchen: Day Nine (S06E09)

Day Nine of Hell’s Kitchen began with a whiny Suzanne clamining her teamwork, effort, and proficiency in the kitchen. It resulted in a lot of eye rolling from the rest of her team. Clearly, they were disappointed that Suzanne had returned from the chopping block and was forced back upon their team.

The next day began with the challenge. Chef Ramsay wanted to inspire the chef’s and bring a touch of French food into Hell’s Kitchen. He introduced the crepe to the eight remaining chefs and gave them the task of creating a breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert crepe. What ensued was practically comedy. Less than half the chefs were able to properly create a crepe and one-armed Dave is called out by Chef Ramsay saying his plate saying, “It looks like a plate of diarrhea.” Needless to say, the women won the competition.

The women were whisked away for a day of French pantomime and lunch while the men were left to prep both kitchens.

The girls rather enjoyed the pantomime in which they were allowed to pretend to hit one another. Suzanne seemed to get the brunt of this exercise. They were then taken to a French restaurant to sip champagne and eat foie gras.

Just as the women return to Hell’s Kitchen and finish their prep before opening, Andy manages to slice off the tips of his fingers while slicing potatoes. He is sent to the hospital for stitches but returns early on in the dinner service and is placed on the appetizer station, although he does very little actual cooking all night. Dave makes all of Andy’s risotto for him. When Andy is incapable of making a crepe, Kevin takes over and Andy is left to make a simple salad which he inevitable drops and then puts too much dressing. Chef Ramsay is furious and throws Andy out of the kitchen for the evening. Not a huge loss since he hadn’t done anything anyway. He claimed his dexterity was off due to his fingers. Meanwhile, one-armed Dave had a great service.

Over in the red kitchen, Sabrina can’t manage to season anything. Her risotto is “inconsistent” and her frog legs are bland. Suzanne can’t get her timing straight nor can she cook lamb to the proper temperature. Shortly after ANdy is thrown out of the kitchen, so are Sabrina and Suzanne. It’s a bad night to piss off Chef Ramsay. Sous chef, Heather, jumps in to help the red team finish their service.

Chef Ramsay decides he cannot name a winner and tells the men and women that they must name two nominees as a consensus. They choose Suzanne for her lack of teamwork and inability to cook lamb and Andy because he’s just a complete mess. Easily, Andy is sent home. But then Chef Ramsay calls Sabrina up. He tells both Suzanne and Sabrina that they must return to their former selves and start putting out a good service. But to everyone’s surprise, he also tells Suzanne to remove her jacket…and join the blue team.

Seven chefs remain as they vie for the chance to be the Head Chef at Araxi in Whistler, British Columbia.